The world spends hundreds of billions yearly to punish offenders, with little return beyond more crime and less hope. DW ...

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Forty years ago a report recommended capping prisoner numbers and developing community solutions. It's still the only way ...

Government and law experts discussed reforms of the justice and corrections system during a recent forum held by the ...

The Malinauskas Government's record investment into prison capacity is making strong progress, with construction of the new 40-bed site at the ...

The very fact that various political figures are now assassinated with such regularity speaks of a crisis in the entire ...

On Friday, the Brazilian supreme court sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to more than 27 years in prison for plotting ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's top legislative leaders said Thursday that they are aiming to advance a package of ...

SAN JOSE — What is left of the former Mexican American Community Services Agency facility in East San Jose will soon be ...

Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. has been federally charged in the stabbing death of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte ...

Donald Trump is ramping up his war on vaccines, as health officials plan to blame the Covid shot for children’s deaths.

The county is holding immigrants — some without criminal records — for longer than anticipated, immigration lawyers say.